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THE CULTIVATOR 
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A Cheap Green-House. 
For those who are fond of flowers, there is nothing 
more interesting than their culture during the dreary 
months of winter. A few kinds will flourish well in 
the dry, hot, and changeable air of ordinary stove 
rooms; but it is not always convenient nor practicable 
to occupy the limited space of living rooms in this 
way, and most plants will not succeed so well here as 
in a cooler and more uniform temperature. An ordi¬ 
nary green-house is a somewhat costly structure; and 
regulating the fire during a whole winter is quite a 
formidable task. For green-house plants, properly so 
called, or those which do best in an air but few degrees 
above freezing, we have lately adopted a plan which 
we find to succeed admirably with but little care, and 
without the cost or attention of fire-heat. Although 
this plan is not altogether new, we believe a descrip¬ 
tion will be useful and acceptable to many of our 
readers. 
It consists of an extension made to an ordinary cel- 
that of a common green house. Fig. 1, is a section, 
a being the cellar; b, the ordinary place of the south 
cellar wall, which is removed, leaving the space open 
Fig. 2. 
to the green-house extension; c c are the walls, and d 
the sash. Fig. 3 represents the external appearance of 
this contrivance, showing the sloping sash, and a por¬ 
tion of the cellar wall w, and siding of the building, s. 
Fig 3. 
In order to obviate the necessity of fire-heat, it is 
requisite that so large a surface of sash should be 
double-glazed. Fig. 2 exhibits a cross-section of this 
double sash, e e being the sash-bars, and n n the 
panes. The bars are made on both edges in the same 
form that ordinary sash is made on the glass side for 
the, reception of the panes. We have had cross-bars 
made between these sash bars, like ordinary window- 
sash, so that the lower panes are set in as in common 
windows, the upper or lapping panes merely resting on 
these cross-bars. This arrangement makes the win¬ 
dows rather more secure from the passage of air, but 
is not absolutely necessary. 
This structure being attached to an office where a 
fire above the cellar is not regularly kept up, some¬ 
times needs a very small fire in a stove when the ther¬ 
mometer sinks to zero; but if connected with a dwell¬ 
ing constantly occupied, no artificial heat would be 
ever needed. ■■ . 
Production of Fruit Buds. 
The Editor of the Journal of Agriculture has pub¬ 
lished a captious and foolish article in his columns^ 
finding fault in a rude manner with a paragraph in a 
recent number of this paper. The article we allude to 
is signed “A Learner ,” and disputes the well known 
and generally admitted truth that a free Jlow of sap 
through a tree favors the production of leaf-buds, and 
of wood and leaves; and that whatever impedes it3 
flow and causes its accumulation, favors the production 
of fruit buds. Every intelligent horticulturist is'aware 
that when trees are young, the sap flows freely through 
all parts, and that a rapid growth of wood and leaves 
is the consequence, while fruit buds are sparingly pro¬ 
duced. But when the tree becomes older, and the sap 
vessels more rigid, obstructing in some measure this 
free flow, fruit buds are more abundantly produced. 
The same result takes place when young trees are 
stunted by imperfect cultivation, or when the sap is 
impeded at the junction of the pear on quince stocks, 
or of the apple on paradise stocks. The increased 
fruitfulness produced by root-pruning, by the cultiva¬ 
tion of dwarfs, by summer pinching, and by girdling, 
is known to all intelligent cultivators. It is certainly 
rather queer to see a paper which makes such high 
claims to science as the Journal of Agriculture, dis¬ 
puting facts such as these. 
It is scarcely necessary to inform any of our readers, 
that the stunting or impeding process may be carried to 
excess, as it often is in old orchards, and that a great¬ 
er number of fruit buds are produced, than can be 
properly developed; and hence the necessity of pru¬ 
ning and of enriching cultivation, to reduce the num¬ 
bers of the fruit, and increase its size. An over-pro¬ 
duction of fruit buds will be desired by no good cul¬ 
tivator. 
Fatting Hogs on Carrots and Meal. —The 
Massachusetts Plowman makes the following state¬ 
ment, which may be improved to some profitable result 
by some of the readers of this paper :—“ We are using 
boiled carrots and meal for fatting our hogs, and think 
they make good food. They are probably worth more 
than potatoes for fatting, though actual trials are wan¬ 
ted to determine the question.” 
Heavy Cattle. —Several of the mammoth cattle 
which have been on exhibition near the Crystal Palace, 
New-York, during the past season, have recently been 
slaughtered. The dressed weight of several of them 
was as follows:—No. 1, 2,178 lbs.—No. 2, 2,066 lbs.— 
No. 3, 2,024 lbs.—No. 4, 1,930 lbs.—No. 5, 1,860 lbs.— 
No. 6, 2,008 lbs.—Nos. 7 and 8, “the twins,” 1,800 
and 1,880 lbs. Nine of them averaged 1,915 lbs. 
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